Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bull City Talent Group is seeking an IS Operational Technology (OT) Project Manager for a 12-18 month assignment. The role involves leading project activities, ensuring effective change management, and coordinating with various stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
Responsibilities
- Understanding of manufacturing OT environments and limitations of a 24x7 operations
- Employs structured project management methodologies (e.g. PMI) to deliver successful business outcomes through expertly managed projects at the OT or enterprise level
- Develops detailed project plans, deliverables, milestones, goals and inter/intra project dependency maps that ensure all required project work is executed completely, correctly and timely
- Works with project sponsors and stakeholders to define the appropriate resource requirements in terms of skills, knowledge, availability and capacity to successfully conduct project work. Ensures that any gap is identified and addressed at the proper time within the project timeline to maximize project efficiency and efficacy
- Assembles and coordinates project team members and assignments across individuals maintaining balanced workloads
- Creates comprehensive communications plans that identify the level, type, format and style of communications for the project team, stakeholders, and sponsors. Utilizes standard tools (e.g. RACI) to define roles and responsibilities at all times within the project lifecycle
- Prepares requests for proposals (RFPs) for external services and conducts all necessary meetings to facilitate selection. Monitors contracts and maintains regular communication with service providers
- Develops proper risk management strategies that focus on risk identification and proactive response/mitigation. Ensures that issue management is comprenhensive, visible and timely to minimize impact to the project. Educates team members in risk/issue management and ensure that the discipline is built into the DNA of the project team and its operations
- Develops, maintains and communicates detailed project financial budgets and forecast status. Ensure project financials are managed proactively and provides visibility at required levels of the organization. Works closely with Sourcing and Vendor Management to ensure supplier engagements meet the project requirements and benefit the organization
- Complies with all policies and procedures and ensure the project teams are educated and follow them
- Works with IS, OT and IT Leadership to continuously improve project and change management processes, tools, knowledge and capability across the organization
- Employs a structured change management methodology (e.g. ADKAR) to facilitate change and promote commitment to adapt to the change. Knows how to tailor this methodology to be culturally appropriate for the enterprise
- Works with the local control engineers and operation stakeholders to create a communications strategy and plan to ensure all employees are fully aware of impending changes. Creates mechanisms to de-emphasize old behaviors and encourage new desired ones
- Proven project and process management skills
- Demonstrated leadership to project teams across matrix organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organization, presentation and customer service skills
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams under 1 large project across different businesses and deliver results with limited resources
- Ability and desire to be hands on with applications and technology tools to deliver solutions
- Strong problem solving and decision making skills
Skills
- Bachelors Degree in Technology, Engineering, or related field
- 5-10 years project management experience in an Information Technology environment
- 2-3 years organizational change management experience
- 3 or more years of experience in manufacturing projects, cross-functional areas or leading cross-functional organizational projects
- Proven project and process management skills
- Demonstrated leadership to project teams across matrix organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organization, presentation and customer service skills
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams under 1 large project across different businesses and deliver results with limited resources
- Ability and desire to be hands on with applications and technology tools to deliver solutions
- Strong problem solving and decision making skills
- Understanding of manufacturing OT environments and limitations of a 24x7 operations
- Employs structured project management methodologies (e.g. PMI) to deliver successful business outcomes through expertly managed projects at the OT or enterprise level
- Develops detailed project plans, deliverables, milestones, goals and inter/intra project dependency maps that ensure all required project work is executed completely, correctly and timely
- Works with project sponsors and stakeholders to define the appropriate resource requirements in terms of skills, knowledge, availability and capacity to successfully conduct project work
- Assembles and coordinates project team members and assignments across individuals maintaining balanced workloads
- Creates comprehensive communications plans that identify the level, type, format and style of communications for the project team, stakeholders, and sponsors
- Prepares requests for proposals (RFPs) for external services and conducts all necessary meetings to facilitate selection
- Monitors contracts and maintains regular communication with service providers
- Develops proper risk management strategies that focus on risk identification and proactive response/mitigation
- Ensures that issue management is comprehensive, visible and timely to minimize impact to the project
- Educates team members in risk/issue management and ensure that the discipline is built into the DNA of the project team and its operations
- Develops, maintains and communicates detailed project financial budgets and forecast status
- Ensure project financials are managed proactively and provides visibility at required levels of the organization
- Works closely with Sourcing and Vendor Management to ensure supplier engagements meet the project requirements and benefit the organization
- Complies with all policies and procedures and ensure the project teams are educated and follow them
- Works with IS, OT and IT Leadership to continuously improve project and change management processes, tools, knowledge and capability across the organization
- Employs a structured change management methodology (e.g. ADKAR) to facilitate change and promote commitment to adapt to the change
- Knows how to tailor this methodology to be culturally appropriate for the enterprise
- Works with the local control engineers and operation stakeholders to create a communications strategy and plan to ensure all employees are fully aware of impending changes
- Creates mechanisms to de-emphasize old behaviors and encourage new desired ones
- Advanced business degree preferred
- Multi-plant manufacturing environment preferred
- PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification or equivalent preferred
- Change Management professional certification desired
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